Thanksgiving in October or November?
As many of you might not be aware, the this is Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. Our Canadian friends celebrate Thanksgiving on…
Redwoods National Park: 50th Birthday
October 2nd marks the 50th birthday of Redwoods National and State Parks, also a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an…
Changing Landscape of White Sands
Nestled in the middle of White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico (the site of the first atomic bomb test)…
Organ Pipe: Music in the Desert
As the desert begins to cool off, our thoughts turn to getting out to some of the wonderful national park…
Flight 93, Never Forgotten
National Memorials are a special kind of national park unit – memorializing a historic person or event. One of these…
Labor Day at Lowell National Historical Park
When you think of national park units, you don’t often think of a factory. But that is what Lowell National…
National Park Units in 50 States
Last week we talked about the 50th anniversary of the National Trails System. This week we celebrated a “50” of…
Lassen: Celebrating 50 years of the National Trails System
Did you know that Lassen Volcanic National Park in California includes seven trails that are part of the National Trails…
Oregon Caves – more than the name implies…
On a recent visit to Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, we found that there was much more to the…
Manzanar: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Manzanar National Historic Site in California preserves a “relocation camp” but many would refer to it as an internment camp…